Episode · Behind the Bastards · 2022-03-01
Books mentioned on Part One: How The Rich Ate Christianity
We sit down with Dan and Jordan from knowledge fight to discuss the plot to make Christianity capitalist. FOOTNOTES: https://www.
Robert Evans discussed The Medieval Machine : The Industrial Revolution of the Middle Ages : Written by Jean Gimpel, 1977 Edition, Publisher by Jean Gimpel and The New Prophets of Capital by Nicole Aschoff.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Medieval Machine : The Industrial Revolution of the Middle Ages : Written by Jean Gimpel, 1977 Edition, Publisher
Discussed“So many new types of machines were invented and put to use by 1300 that historian Jean Gimple wrote a book in 1976 called the industrial revolution of the middle ages.”
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The New Prophets of Capital
The New Prophets of Capital by Nicole Aschoff examines contemporary capitalism and the ideologies of influential figures and economic systems.
Discussed“Now, actual socialists uh like Nicole Ashoff, who wrote the New Profits of Capital, saw the New Deal or see the New Deal as it was essentially a way for capitalists who were more reasonable and less monstrous than some of the other capitalists to keep the system limping along without a socialist revolution.”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“Congregationalist minister Franklin Monroe Sprag wrote socialism from genesis to revelation in 1892. John Spargo, a Methodist minister, became a socialist educator.”